I'd love Gregory back at the club right now. Shows passion and is good with players. We had some good times with him as our manager.
Like the love in that's been going on with harping back to the halcyon days of Doug Ellis, though jg may have loved the villa he like oneill had money, spunked it up the wall and gave us the worst villa performance in that cup final.
Quote from: rutski on January 12, 2013, 11:50:58 AMLike the love in that's been going on with harping back to the halcyon days of Doug Ellis, though jg may have loved the villa he like oneill had money, spunked it up the wall and gave us the worst villa performance in that cup final. Oh have a word with yourself. "Worst Villa performance" my arse. Firstly, no other manager in in most people's living memory has got us to a final, and secondly we lost to one flukey goal thanks to a David James howler. And he might have spent a lot of money, but most of it was well spent on players like Dublin, Merson, Delaney, James, Boateng, Alpay and Angel. He had a far higher hit rate than O'Neill when it came to transfers, and he worked for Ellis not some stupid American playboy with a trust fund to squander.
I know a lot of people moan about Gregory and his brand of football, but we still had some great games under him and a few players like Merson and briefly Carbone, who'd provide the entertainment off their own back. Still I'd settle for being a middling top 8 club now. Plus his love of the club could never be questionnned. It meant a lot to him. You never felt that with some of our managers since. O Neill proved how little we meant to him. O Leary probably thought he was gonna step over us to become manager of Barca and McLeish is just a jobber going from one gig to another without much enthusiasm. At least you sense with Lambert that he's grateful to be hear and wants to achieve long term goals. I do miss the Gregory days though. Always good for a quote too. JG is in actual fact probably a very mediocre football manager, as proved by his stints after. He did well here, largely because of how passionate he was for the club. It took him a long way I think.
JG is a good one to follow on twitter, he'll often get involved with a twitter conversion about the Villa or Bruce Springsteen with me. He absolutely loves the Villa.
Quote from: PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt on January 12, 2013, 12:01:39 PMJG is a good one to follow on twitter, he'll often get involved with a twitter conversion about the Villa or Bruce Springsteen with me. He absolutely loves the Villa.Is he actually on there? I've looked for him but they all appear fake.
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